United Liberty

I was forwarded this video by a friend of mine who is left of center. At first, I thought it was a scientology video given the crticism of psychiatry but soon saw that it was a disorganized criticism of American economic and foreign policy.

It’s too bad that Milton Friedman, who is unfairly portrayed here as the Devil himself, is not present to defend himself against slandarous attacks. Friedman was not against government and social programs altogether but favored programs (such as vouchers) that would help raise the poor out of poverty and into self-sufficiency. He favored marijuana decriminalization and was a self-described “liberal.” He was not solely responsible for nor the mastermind of Reagan, Clinton or either Bush’s policies, for better or worse.

It’s also important to remember who Naomi Klein, the writer for this short film, is and what her background is. In a profile in the New Yorker, it was revealed that her parents were serious communists that actually supported the Soviet Union during Josef Stalin’s brutal rule. They didn’t start to walk away from that until the 1950s, when Stalin’s crimes were undeniable and no longer dangerous to point out. Klein’s husband is professional idiot Avi Lewis, who made a complete fool of himself when women’s right activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who found asylum from violent Islamism in the United States,  cut Lewis’ cultural relativism and anti-Americanism down to size during a TV interview. Klein, as was noted in the New Yorker piece, has a poor understanding of the political right that she hates so much and tosses neoconservatives, libertarians, social conservatives and paleoconservatives in together with little thought.

Alas, she is attractive. As the ascent of Arianna Huffington to political primacy illustrates, that alone seems to be enough.